The Other Side of the Wind (2018, not rated), starring John Huston as an aging filmmaker trying to stay relevant in the changing landscape of 1970s cinema, was left unfinished and in limbo when Orson Welles died in 1985. Netflix helped finance the completion and clear up the legal tangles. It made its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and Netflix streams the film the same day it plays select theaters.

Also on Netflix today is They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead (2018, not rated), a documentary on the film’s history by Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville.

Julia Roberts stars in Homecoming: Season 1, her first series. Adapted by creators Micah Bloomberg and Eli Horowitz from their podcast and directed by Mr. Robot creator Sam Ismail, it’s a mystery set at a center for soldiers readjusting to civilian life.

“Forged from inventive long takes and killer audio cues, the upcoming Amazon original series feels like Alfred Hitchcock has made a new mystery, and it’s a deliciously good time,” writes Ben Travers for IndieWire.

Claire Underwood (Robin Wright) takes charge as the first woman president in the sixth and final season of House of Cards, which brings Netflix’s first bona-fide original hit to a close without Kevin Spacey. All 13 episodes on Netflix.

Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson are protective parents of a child (Jacob Tremblay) with facial deformities in Wonder (2017, PG), the family drama based on the bestselling children’s novel by R.J. Palacio. On Prime Video and Hulu.

Classic pick: John Boorman’s magnificent and magical Excalibur (1981, R) is the richest of screen incarnation of the oft-told Arthurian legend. On Prime Video.

Foreign pick: People on Sunday (Germany, 1930, with subtitles), a lovely silent film that offers a snapshot of life in Weimar Germany, launched the careers of some of Hollywood’s great filmmakers. On Prime Video.

Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand

Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon star in The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018, R) as best friends who inadvertently get caught up in international intrigue.

Netflix

Halloween is over, which means that the Netflix Christmas movie originals are already arriving. Now available is the romantic drama The Holiday Calendar with “The Vampire Diaries” star Kat Graham and the animated Angela’s Christmas (2018, not rated), based on a story by Frank McCourt.

Foreign affairs: South African filmmaker and actor Akin Omotoso developed Vaya (South Africa, 2018, not rated, with subtitles), a fictional drama of rural folk in facing the big city culture of Johannesburg, from real-life experiences shared in story workshops. Also new is Gun City (Spain, 2018, not rated, with subtitles), a crime thriller set in the underworld of 1921 Barcelona.

Halle Berry and Daniel Craig star in Kings (2017, R), a drama set in the midst of the Rodney King riots, and Equals (2015, PG-13) features Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult as people in love in a world without emotions.

Streaming TV: Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj takes on politics, culture, and the news with a sense of humor. New episodes arrive each Sunday. Also new is the third collection of Follow This mini-documentaries from BuzzFeed reporters.

Amazon Prime Video

The Adventures of Tintin (2011, PG), Steven Spielberg’s first foray into motion capture filmmaking, turns the legendary boy journalist and globe-trotting adventurer from the early graphic novels of Herge into a big screen hero. Jamie Bell stars with Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock.

The animated fantasy Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Japan, 1984, PG, with subtitles), the second feature from Hayao Miyazaki and the feature debut of Studio Ghibli, is set on a faraway world of medieval castles and massive airships and splintered kingdoms.

Also new this month: cop drama Rampart (2011, R) with Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster;

True stories: Ron Mann’s Grass (1999, R) looks at the history and culture of marijuana in America. Woody Harrelson narrates.

Amazon Prime / Hulu

Samuel L. Jackson stars in the gorgeous musical drama The Red Violin (1998, R), which follows the journey of a legendary instrument as it passes through many hands over the course of three centuries. On Prime Video and Hulu. Also new:

HBO Now

The Oscar-nominated drama The Post (2017, PG-13) takes on the responsibility of journalists to speak truth to power with the story of the stakes behind The Washington Post’s decision to publish the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks star in the old school newspaper drama directed by Steven Spielberg.

Older films returning to HBO this month include Cop Car (2015, R) with Kevin Bacon as a corrupt sheriff;

Available Saturday night is an extended, unrated version of the R-rated Fifty Shades Freed (2018, not rated).

Showtime Anytime

Dylan O’Brien and Michael Keaton star in the action thriller American Assassin (2017, R) and Ansel Elgourt and Taron Egerton star with Kevin Spacey in Billionaire Boys Club (2018, R), a crime drama based on a true story.

FilmStruck

TCM Select Pick of the Week is The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), Albert Lewin’s handsome 1945 adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s novel of a man who remains eternally young and increasingly damned while his portrait reflects his true age and corrupt soul. Hurd Hatfield plays the eternally young Dorian, George Sanders plays Wilde’s stand-in, offering dryly witty commentary with a cultured purr, and Donna Reed and Anglela Lansbury co-star as two of Gray’s victims.

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Sean Axmaker is a Seattle film critic and writer. He writes the weekly newspaper column Stream On Demand and the companion website, and his work appears at RogerEbert.com, Turner Classic Movies online, The Film Noir Foundation, and Parallax View.